The birth of one of the oldest, most remarkable business empires in India.
How Professor Mary Lynn Realff created demand for Effective Team Dynamics at Georgia Tech.
How Akmann Van-Mary — with the help of the Flashpoint startup incubator — discovered authentic demand for a payments solution in the logistics space.
How the invention of RAID changed the nature of the data storage industry.
Even the most positive, most convincing indications of early demand may result in startup failure. This is what that looks like.
Vanguard invented the first index fund. But the way it found Product Market-Fit is a multi-decade story of perseverance.
One of the earliest applications of the Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) framework.
How Jobs-to-be-Done Framework pioneer Bob Moesta took a kitchen countertop-materials startup from $500,000 in sales to $18 million.
How Robert Kuok became the richest man in Malaysia ... for over 20 years.
The story of Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of Reliance Industries, who transformed from a polyester trader to a tycoon over the course of his life.
What it’s like doing activist investing where there’s little rule of law.
What happened when the son of B.C. Lee — founder of Samsung — had to atone for the corruption of his father’s past.
How Samsung became the single most important company in South Korea.
The long story of how Stanley Ho became the gambling king of Macau.
How Macau’s king of gambling cut his teeth as a 20-something tycoon during World War II.
A demonstration of power by Silicon Valley’s top startup accelerator.
The legendary transition: how Intel’s culture, its leadership, and its technology saved them from near certain death.
How Costco approaches compensation, in Jim Senegal’s own words.
How NetApp’s president Tom Mendoza thinks about demonstrating ‘legends’ for the employees.
An Amazonian story, constructed to illustrate a core value.
